Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Woodnutt Miller was guilty of conspiracy to defraud the U. S. Government. But 70* hours of argument and sleep under lock and key had failed to produce a verdict on onetime (1921-24) Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty, who was closely linked with the alien property fraud. The final vote of the jurors was eleven to one for conviction of Mr. Daugherty...
John Barbee '28 of Chicago was elected captain of the University basketball team for 1928 at a meeting of the lettermen yesterday afternoon. Only eight players were eligible to vote, and of these eight, Barbee is the only one to return next year...
...forget that fanners vote...
...gallery, this man, one Jovan Risitch, coughed and spat blood upon the floor, then cried in a husky voice: "You, Maximovitch, did this to me! Last night your assassin Sokolovitch had me stripped as I am now and beat me himself because I-a poor government clerk-would not vote as you ordered...
...Managua, the Capital of Nicaragua, President Diaz presented to Parliament for approval a proposed treaty with the U. S. While marines stood on guard about the Parliament House the treaty text was commended by a vote of confidence and cabled to Washington. It provides: 1) that the U. S. undertake to preserve peace in Nicaragua and the continuity of the Nicaraguan Government; 2) that accordingly the right of intervention in Nicaragua be extended to the U. S. by mutual consent; 3) that a U. S. financial adviser and receiver-general of revenues assume the task of rehabilitating the finances...